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Meta Open-Sources DCPerf, a Benchmark Suite for Hyperscale Cloud Workloads
Meta has recently released DCPerf, aiming to provide a representation of the diverse workloads found in data center cloud deployments. This collection of benchmarks is expected to be a valuable resource for researchers, hardware developers, and internet companies, aiding in the design and evaluation of future products.
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AWS Introduces Dedicated Local Zones for Sovereignty Requirements
AWS has recently introduced Dedicated Local Zones, enabling customers to isolate sensitive workloads to meet their digital sovereignty requirements. This new option is designed for public sector and regulated industry customers who need dedicated infrastructure.
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What Carbon Neutral Really Means and How Net-Zero Is Different
Carbon neutrality means that the total amount of emissions is either eliminated, neutralized, or compensated. Net-zero is a target that doesn’t include compensation and puts more emphasis on avoiding carbon emissions. Many products, data centers, or companies are already carbon neutral, but few have reached net-zero. The problem with offsetting approaches is that you continue to emit carbon.
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Google Distributed Cloud Hosted Now Generally Available
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Hosted, an offering for customers with the most stringent requirements, including classified, restricted, and top-secret data. It complements Google Distributed Cloud Edge and Google Distributed Cloud Virtual, which became generally available in 2022.
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AWS Opens New Region in Spain
AWS recently opened a new region in Spain to offer cloud services in the Iberian Peninsula and address in-country data residency and compliance requirements. The new eu-south-2 region is based in Aragón and has three availability zones.
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Google Announces Three New Regions in Asia Pacific
Google has a global network of 34 regions and 103 availability zones, bringing its Cloud services to customers in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Recently, the company announced that it would expand its presence to three new cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand.
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Google Releases its Distributed Cloud Edge Offering into General Availability
Last month Google announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud Edge, including Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliances. The product is part of the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a fully-managed hardware and software portfolio that allows organizations to run workloads at the edge.
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Google Announces Distributed Cloud
At the recent Next ’21 conference, Google announced Google Distributed Cloud, a set of hardware and software solutions to extend Google infrastructure to the edge and into customer data centers.
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Google Cloud Introduces Option to Choose Region with Lowest CO2 Footprint
Google has recently introduced the option to choose a Google Cloud region according to the lowest CO2 footprint. The new feature is currently available for Cloud Run and Datastream only, with Google planning to extend the offer to more Google Cloud services in the future.
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Large-Scale Infrastructure Hardware Availability at Facebook
Facebook's engineering team wrote about the different methodologies used at Facebook that help maintain a high degree of hardware availability in their data centers.
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Cloud Computing in a Shipping Container: Microsoft Introduces the Azure Modular Datacenter
Microsoft recently announced a new Azure in a shipping container service called Azure Modular Datacenter. The new offer provides an option for setting up an Azure datacenter in hybrid or challenging environments where cloud computing previously would not have been possible.
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Linode Announces DDoS Protection Across Its Global Network
Linode announced the availability of its DDoS protection service across its network for detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks.
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Microsoft Opens Two New Datacenters in Africa with General Availability of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft announced its first data centers in Africa, with the general availability of their cloud service Azure. Moreover, Microsoft becomes the first public cloud provider to deliver cloud services in Africa.
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Server and Network Operations Automation at Dropbox
Dropbox's engineering team wrote about their network and server provisioning and validation automation tool called Pirlo. Pirlo has a pluggable architecture based on a MySQL backed custom job queue implementation.
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Splitting Stateful Services across Continents at Instagram
At the recent Large Installation System Administration (LISA) 2018 Conference, Sherry Xiao, production engineer at Instagram, explained how their team split Instagram’s services across datacenters in the US and Europe. They achieved data locality in their stateful services - Cassandra and TAO - by using new and modified tools from Facebook’s engineering team.